This seems the most appropriate board to post this on although the story told did actually happen so it's not really an urban myth or legend. Whether the details are true is the unknown question.

I encountered this story in an adult ghost book last year & found it one of the most interesting I have read for a while. Whether or not it fits in a ghost book is another question as you will see when reading.

The version I read had exactly the same facts as the link but it was a little more in depth. One of the most frustrating aspects of the story is that the teacher did actually make the boys sit down separately & write down their own version of what happened. The statements, if you like, were then gathered up and collated into a single book and all of them matched. However to this day the whereabouts of this book of statements is unknown..... ARRRRRRRGHH!

I personally found this one of the more intriguing things I have read over the past years. I only wish the book of statements never went missing as that does create the only hole in the validity of the story.

With the book it would be certain that "something" did happen whether it be true sighting, a mistaken sighting or a hoax.

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Posted 10 January 2011 - 12:39 PM

There is actually a medical condition that can cause you to turn blue... Am having issues thinking of the name. It's seen in Ky (my guess would be via the "founder's effect", aka small populations inbreeding).
Also YEARS ago it was common practice to take silver to cure whatever ailed you... This could cause a blue/grey tint to the skin (saw it on what used to be the discovery health channel).

There is actually a medical condition that can cause you to turn blue... Am having issues thinking of the name. It's seen in Ky (my guess would be via the "founder's effect", aka small populations inbreeding).

Yeah, I've heard of that it's Methemoglobinemia. The family in Kentucky was known as The Blue Fugates

Interests:I love to sleep!!! I also enjoy reading, some of my favorite authors would be Stephen King, Anne Rice, and Edgar Allen Poe. My favorite tv shows are Ghost Hunters, America's Most Haunted, I Shouldn't be Alive, anything on the Discovery Health Channel, Myth Busters, Desperate Houswives, Grey's Anatomy, House, American Idol, Trading Spouses, The Simpsons, Family Guy, King of the Hill. But I obviously don't watch any tv. I also enjoy making new, pretty medic alert braclets, and earrings.

Posted 10 January 2011 - 02:17 PM

There is actually a medical condition that can cause you to turn blue... Am having issues thinking of the name. It's seen in Ky (my guess would be via the "founder's effect", aka small populations inbreeding).

Yeah, I've heard of that it's Methemoglobinemia. The family in Kentucky was known as The Blue Fugates

However it's not really a viable explanation for this case I don't think. I may be wrong but in the UK somebody with this condition would be well documented. We are not a huge country and although very green we have no real wilderness where such a thing could go unnoticed for long.

Personally I find these types of cases the most credible. When a group of people experience something which holds up well under individual questioning it is intriguing. However a hoax or mistaken sighting is always the most plausible explanation. The disappearance of the book of the kids individual statements just seems too fortunate though.

Without it we will never know just how well the kids responded to any questions & how their stories help up. This really does stop this sighting from being something more.